AI & SEO, Telegram Bots, and Floating Down the Colorado River

A few good reads and things to check out in AI today!

Jul 08, 2024

Hey y’all!

I spent some time lazily floating down the Colorado this past weekend; what did you end up doing for your 4th of July week / weekend?

I hope to do it again soon! It was very relaxing and exactly what I needed. Have a great one folks!

※\(^o^)/※

— Summer

Here are some very tactical thoughts on how to optimize AI overviews for tailored content in SEO. The folks at MOZ kind of know what they are talking about.

Enhance your conversations on Telegram with powerful AI Bots and Agents. If that’s your thing, check it out.

Discover stunning Sketch Rendering of images that will inspire and captivate your imagination. Explore a curated collection of featured sketches at PromeAI.

Artificial intelligence is keeping the VC ecosystem afloat. It accounted for more than 40% of new private U.S. "unicorns" in the first half this year, and over 60% of the increase in total venture-backed valuation, per PitchBook.

Interesting business and economic model I suppose. What is Chamath up to?

Here’s a vertical landscape overview for AI. It’s not a bad market map and you might find a few services that would be useful.

A research team at Microsoft has introduced VALL-E 2, a significantly improved AI system for speech synthesis. However, they believe the world is not ready for its release.

Yikes. Interesting, if true.

Kuaishou introduces a web version of Kling AI based on an "enhanced model" that can generate videos up to ten seconds long. The new model also allows control of camera movements such as panning, tilting and zooming, and supports negative prompts. Sadly, you still need a Chinese telephone number to make it work.

Researchers at the Tencent AI Lab in Seattle have introduced a new method for generating synthetic data: synthetic personalities.The Tencent AI Lab calls them "personas" and creates substitutes for real people to generate billions of synthetic datasets for developing AI systems.

Yikes. I hope this doesn’t create more spam. Or, maybe that’s the point.

Build an AI workforce so you don’t have to work. Or, at least you’ll have to setup the bots, make sure their working, review the outputs, refine the approach(es), and then rinse and repeat which sounds a bit like work.